Today's Editorial
Care for the flowers of the motherland and escort the healthy growth of children
Special commentator of this newspaper
"To be a good child of the motherland today, to be a builder of the motherland tomorrow, a good life belongs to you, and a beautiful Chinese dream belongs to you." A strong youth will make the country strong, and the progress of the youth will make the country progress. the future of the nation.
The whole society takes care of the healthy growth of children and young people, cultivates soil, protects seedlings, gathers trees into forests, and promotes the development and progress of children's work, so that children and young people can grow into pillars with lofty aspirations, knowledge, morality, and achievements. The Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is always ready.
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the China Children's Center, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a congratulatory letter to express warm congratulations. On the occasion of the "June 1st" International Children's Day, Xi Jinping, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, sent a congratulatory letter to the whole country. Children and children extend holiday congratulations, wishing the children to learn and progress, live happily, and thrive.
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A strong youth makes a country strong, and a youth makes progress for the country.
Promoting the healthy growth of children can provide valuable resources and inexhaustible driving force for the sustainable development of the country, which is an inevitable requirement for building a powerful modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has regarded cultivating children as a strategic and basic task, adhered to the principle of giving priority to children, vigorously developed the cause of children, and further improved the legal, regulatory, and policy system for protecting children's rights. , the working mechanism for children under the leadership of the party committee, the main responsibility of the government, the coordination of the working committee for women and children, multi-departmental cooperation, and the participation of the whole society have been further consolidated, and the environment for children's development has been further optimized.
The gradual improvement of the system and the continuous improvement of policies will create a better and better environment for children to grow up and become talents, and promote the all-round development of children and adolescents.
The green tree buds blossomed and scattered under the moisturizing of sunshine, rain and dew, and the flowers of the motherland thrived under the care of the general secretary.
The message "The most important aspiration in life should be linked with the motherland and the people"; emphasized "your generation should be said to have the strongest sense of national pride and honor"; instructed "the Chinese dream of my country's socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, It will be realized in your hands in the future"...Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has stood at the strategic height of successors in the red country, and the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics has been passed down from generation to generation. , to inspire children in the new era to work hard and grow brightly. my country's children's development and children's cause have made historic new achievements.
Statistics show that by the end of 2020, the mortality rate of infants and children under the age of 5 in my country has dropped from 13.1‰ and 16.4‰ in 2010 to 5.4‰ and 7.5‰ respectively; the gross enrollment rate of preschool education has risen from 56.6% in 2010 to 85.2%. In 2010, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education increased from 91.1% in 2010 to 95.2%, and the gross enrollment rate of senior high school students increased from 82.5% in 2010 to 91.2%; rural left-behind children, children in distress and other vulnerable groups received more care and protection.
Behind these figures is the further realization of children's rights in education, family, social environment, legal protection and other fields, marked improvement in ideological and moral literacy and overall development level, and significantly enhanced sense of gain, happiness and security.
While seeing the achievements, we should also be soberly aware that the development of my country's children's cause still has problems of imbalance and inadequacy.
The implementation of the principle of giving priority to children needs to be further strengthened, the ideological guidance of children needs to be further strengthened, the construction of the rule of law to protect children's rights needs to continue to advance, the gap between urban and rural areas, regions and groups in children's development needs to be further narrowed, and grass-roots child protection and service mechanisms need to be Further improvement, technological progress and lifestyle changes have brought new challenges to children's work.
In September last year, the State Council issued the "China Children's Development Outline (2021-2030)", which is the fourth cycle of China's Children's Development Outline formulated and implemented by China.
The outline sets a total of 70 major goals and 89 strategic measures from seven areas of health, safety, education, welfare, family, environment and legal protection, drawing a bright future for children's development and children's career in the new era.
Standing at a new historical starting point, it is necessary to further implement the principle of giving priority to children, comprehensively improve the comprehensive quality of children, cultivate socialist builders and successors who will cultivate all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, and lead hundreds of millions of children to bravely undertake new missions and make new contributions. era.
The healthy growth of children and children is related to the future of the country and the nation.
It is the shared responsibility of party committees and governments at all levels and the whole society to create favorable conditions for the growth of children and young people, and to create a favorable environment for cultivating newcomers who can take on the responsibility of national rejuvenation.
The whole society takes care of the healthy growth of children and young people, cultivates soil, protects seedlings, and gathers trees into forests, so that children can grow into pillars with lofty aspirations, knowledge, morality, and achievements, in order to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Ready at all the time.
"To be a good child of the motherland today, to be a builder of the motherland tomorrow, the good life belongs to you, and the beautiful Chinese dream belongs to you." This is General Secretary Xi Jinping's sincere expectation for children in the new era, and it is also the foreseeable beauty of the Chinese nation. future.